The Dogon, the Nommo
The cosmic fish-gods we don’t talk about
The Dogon and the Nommo
The cosmic fish-gods we don’t talk about
Every once in a while, history throws us a cultural curveball that makes us question everything we thought we knew about ancient civilizations. You know, the kinds of things that don’t quite fit into the tidy, Eurocentric timeline of human advancement. One of those curveballs? The Dogon people of Mali, and their deeply weird, eerily specific knowledge of the Sirius star system.
Yes, this story has aliens, or fish gods, or both.